Pelexia tamanduensis (Kraenzl.) Schltr. 1920 SECTION Pachygenium

Photo by © Karl Senghas

TYPE Drawing

TYPE Drawing of Stenorrhynchos tamanduense Kraenzl. 1911 by © Kraenzlin

TYPE Drawing of Stenorrhynchos holosericeum

TYPE Drawing of Stenorrhynchos holosericeum Kraenzl. 1911 by © Kraenzlin

Drawing

Drawing by © Hoehne

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Common Name The Tamandua Pelexia [a town in Parana state of Brazil]

Flower Size .24" [6 mm]

Found in Sao Paulo and Parana statees of Brazil at elevations of 400 to 600 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial orchid with an erect stem carrying 4 to 5, more or less imbricate, carinate, acuminate, glabrous sheaths and carrying oblong-lanceolate, acute, gradually narrowing below into the basally clasping pseudo-petiolate base leaves that blooms in the late summer and early fall on a terminal, erect, peduncle 8 to 12" [20 to 30 cm] long, provided with 4 to 5, more or less imbricate, carinate, acuminate, glabrous, adpressed to the stem sheathing bracts, rachis to 2.8" [7 cm] long, to 20 flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, long-acuminate, lower ones longer than the flowers, upper ones more or less as long as the flowers floral bracts.

" Similar to Pelexia bonariensis but somewhat smaller and differs psecifically in its narrower lip with a more broadly trapizoidal, strongly truncated central lobe." Schlechter 1920

Synonyms Pachygenium tamanduense (Kraenzl.) Szlach. 2001; Stenorrhynchos holosericeum Kraenzl. 1911; *Stenorrhynchos tamanduense Kraenzl. 1911

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Kongl. Svenska Vetensk. Acad. Handl., n.f., 46(10): 24 Kraenzlin 1911 as Stenorrhynchos tamanduense

Kongl. Svenska Vetensk. Acad. Handl., n.f., 46(10): taf 4 fig 5 Kraenzlin 1911 as Stenorrhynchos tamanduense

Kongl. Svenska Vetensk. Acad. Handl., n.f., 46(10): 27 Kraenzlin 1911 as Stenorrhynchos holosericeum

Kongl. Svenska Vetensk. Acad. Handl., n.f., 46(10): taf 5 fig 8 Kraenzlin 1911 as Stenorrhynchos holosericeum drawing fide

* Beih. Bot. Centralbl., Abt. 2. 37: 406 Schlechter 1920

Flora Brasilica fasc 8 Vol XII II 13-43: 221 Orchidaceae Hoehne 1945;

Flora Brasilica fasc 8 Vol XII II 13-43: Tab 110 Orchidaceae Hoehne 1945 drawing fide;

Flora Brasilica fasc 8 Vol XII II 13-43: 222 Orchidaceae Hoehne 1945 as Pelexia tamanduensis var rhombipetala;

Flora Brasilica fasc 8 Vol XII II 13-43: Tab 110 Orchidaceae Hoehne 1945 as Pelexia tamanduensis var rhombipetala drawing fide;

Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 6 321 - 384 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1975 photo fide;

Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 2 Pabst & Dungs 1977 drawing fide

Polish Bot. J. 46: 6 Szlach. R.González & Rutk. 2001 as Pachygenium tamanduensis

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